1:00:00 PM 185. Fabrication and Characterization of Cardiac-Specific Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds, Wenkai Jia, PhD(1), Dhavan Sharma(1), Guifang Wang, PhD(1), Jianhua Zhang, PhD(2), Timothy Kamp, MD, PhD(2), Feng Zhao, PhD(1)*; (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

1:15:00 PM 186. Biomaterial Stem Cell Encapsulation Sup- ports Cardiomyocyte Differentiation with Improved Functionality in Suspension Culture, Mohammadjafar Hashemi*, Ferdous Finklea, Yuan Tian, Ravi Nataraj, Katherine Wright, Hanna Hammons, Elizabeth Lipke, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

1:30:00 PM 187. Hydrogel Microspher- oids with Controlled Size and Aspect Ratio Support Stem Cell Cardiac Differentiation with Geometry-dependent Cardiomyocyte Structural Maturation, Mohammadjafar Hashemi*, Ferdous Finklea, Yuan Tian, Nathan Young, Selen Cremaschi, Elizabeth Lipke, Auburn Univer- sity, Auburn, AL, USA

1:45:00 PM 188. Engineering Hierarchical Vascular Chimeras by Combining Human Microvessels with Explanted Murine Vessels, Emily Margolis, MSE*, Lucia Choi, Nicole Friend, MSE, Andrew Putnam, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2:00:00 PM 189. Optimizing Vascularization in 3D Bioprinted Constructs with Computational Modeling, Nicholas Huynh, Briana Edwards, Vladislav Bukshtynov, PhD, Chris Bashur, PhD*, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA

2:15:00 PM 190. Aligned Elastic Polyurethane/Extracellular Matrix Nanofibers for Cardiomyocyte Culture, Alan Taylor*, Jiazhu Xu, Huikang Fu, Lia Molina Cortez, Sara McMahan, Ph.D, Yan Chang, Ph.D, Zui Pan, Ph.D, Jun Liao, Ph.D, Yi Hong, Ph.D, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA